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There is nothing more worrying than hearing the short asian lady who is about to take your blood say, “just let me check the manual”.
Wait… You’re taking my blood – you’re about to drain cells that flow in my veins with a sharp needle into four tubes – and you need you check the manual?
All my blood cells screamed, “Swim away fromt the arm, for the love of plasma, swim!”
Why is it that all the weblog awards are out in January? Maybe it should be a national holiday, ‘Month of the Blog’, where all bloggers would get the month off work and be showered with love and cool gadgets. Yeah, that would totally be a good idea…
Anyway, Kitta.net is nominated in a few categories in the 2005 Australian Weblog Awards, and if you could spare a moment to vote it would be appreciated. The categories are:
Ahh yes, it’s that time of year when every blogger begs and bitches about one thing…
The bloggies.
Last year I was nominated for ‘Best-Designed Weblog’ and I had hoped to have re-designed by this time, but the Santy Worm pushed the re-design back and I’m no where near done. There area a few other categories that Kitta.net fits into perfectly, such as…
Nomination’s close January 10, 2005, so don’t forget to nominate your favourite blogs.
Stay safe, don’t drink and drive, and have a great new year everyone.
Trillian 3’s encyclopaedia feature makes for some odd chats. At first it’s kind of cool, but it soon turns into that friend who tells you random bits of information that you don’t want to know while you nod, smile and think “Does this person have a degree in randomcrapology?” Or that bloody Microsoft Office assistant that you wish would stop bugging you about letter templates and go clip some paper together or jump off a desk.
If I’m feeling better by Thursday, I want to head to the Breadbox in Northbridge and check out the Supermart exhibition.
“A place where art meets consumerism and where purchasing becomes an art.”
The idea is the gallery is set up to look like a supermarket; including aisles, a checkout and shopping baskets. You can walk around and buy the art as you would your groceries.
I’ve been craving for some Knitted Donuts and Pre-Packaged Finger Food, I also want to pick up Someone Else’s Shopping List, a Pocket-sized Docket and Some Other People’s Photographs.
For more information check out supermart.com.au or if you’re a native Perthian, head down to the Breadbox Gallery, 233 James St Northbridge, before December 30th.
Oh, and don’t forget to nominate your favourite aussie blogs in the 2005 Australian Blog Awards.
I’d love to tell you that my Christmas was fantastic and full of joy, food and all that other crap, but it totally wasn’t.
One thing I desperately wanted for Christmas was to not to be sick and I didn’t find it wrapped up under the tree Christmas morning. I spent Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in bed thinking, “I’m not throwing up, nope, no way” trying to convince myself that there was to be no throwing up. It didn’t work. I could only eat a small amount and if an evil blue midget named Fred asked me if I wanted to sell my soul in exchange for instant wellness, I so would have done it. I think it might be my asthma medication or a stomach bug making me feel ill, but since all the doctors are closed, I can’t find out until late next week. I’m really starting to think someone has put an evil curse on me, some gypsy or blue midget I pissed off back in the day, because it’s getting ridiculous.
I did get some great presents though, such as…
The towels weren’t one of those underwear or face cloth presents your grandmother gives you, I actually wanted them. They’re Egyptian cotton towels, which means they are amazingly soft. I feel in love with Egyptian cotton after I bought some bed sheets made of it, and now there’s no going back. I’m still Kitta from the block.
Last night at 8:01pm (GMT8+), the LRM forum was exploited by the ‘Santy.A’ worm. The santy worm was using Google to search for forums using versions of phpBB 2.0.10 or below. When a suitable site was found, the worm used a remote exploit to gain access to the site, replaced all .htm .php .asp .shtm .jsp .phtm files with “This site is defaced. NeverEverNoSanity Webworm generation X” (X represents the generation of the worm), and then restarted scanning for new sites.
I was online when I happened and I it took about five minutes for the files to be changed. Luckily there was a daily back up, but there were a few files that were 0kb, mainly ones that had been updated over the last few days (including some from a re-design I was about to release). Thankfully I’m one of those people who never empty their recycle bin and most of it was still in there.
Apparently the worm is not spreading any more, thanks to Google’s quick response. Google started filtering the queries made by the worm, effectively stopping the spread of the worm. Even so, I’d advise you to take note internet. Upgrade any phpBB and check any other php based scripts now (I’ve noticed some top sites got exploited), before you see the ‘defaced’ file.
There’s a lot of sites that were exploited, but it’s hard to estimate just how many, the highest generation number is 22, and I can’t even remember what generation number I had. The first report of a sighting was 9:25 GMT on 20th of December.
Official home page of phpBB has yet to comment, but there are quite a few threads in their forum.
I saw this in the newspaper today…
512gb thumb drive for $94, bargain! They’re going to have a ton of phone calls come Monday.
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